Tripolitania Eyalet

Tripolitania Eyalet (15 August 1551-6 November 1837) was an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire that was created after the fall of the Knights of St. John stronghold of Tripoli. It briefly rebelled aganst Ottoman rule from 1836 to 1837, but its rebellion was crushed, and it was reincorporated into the Ottoman Empire as a part of Ottoman North Africa.

History
In 1551, Turgut Reis led the conquest of the Knights of St. John castle of Tripoli, and he proceeded to capture Misrata, Zuwara, Gharyan, and Gafsa, and in 1565 Tripolitania became a province of the Ottoman Empire, with pashas directly appointed by the Sultan ruling over Tripolitania Eyalet. It was a part of the Barbary States for over 250 years, and fought the United States from 1801 to 1805 in the First Barbary War.

In 1835, decentralized Ottoman rule left the Khedivate of Egypt and the Barbary States independent from the Ottomans. The Ottoman Empire began a campaign against the Tripolitanians that lasted less than two years; it took from 1 January 1836 to 6 November 1837 to subdue the Tripolitanian uprising. Tripolitania was reincorporated into the Ottoman Empire as a part of Ottoman North Africa, and Ottoman power was restored, with the Ottomans maintaining control of the province until Italy conquered the region in 1911 in the Italo-Turkish War.